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Online autobiographies remediate life, and sometimes they remediate
texts that we have produced at various points in our lives. Online
autobiographies have been a successful genre on the web--people want
to read about other people.
Shelley Jackson, My Body.
A body map with linked vignettes:spatial, rather than
chronological, ficto-autobiography.
Jeff Pack, Growing
Up Digerate.
Autobiography in hypertext, about life with technology.
From a first-year student at Brown University eight years ago. Who
says the Web is fleeting?
Pattie Belle Hastings, Cyborg
Mommy
You need Acrobat Reader to read the full story; an interesting mix
of theory and autobiography!
Lloyd from Berkeley, Weblog
as Autobiograpy
Weblogs usually strike people as diaries, which might be a kind of
autobiography. This weblogger has collected specific entries from
his weblog that he thinks illustrate who he is--diary excerpts as
autobiography?
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Teachers in the 21st century regularly have to ask themselves: should
I put my teaching materials online? Who would that help? How would
I enhance my class or curriculum? The first example is a massive site,
the second is a personal website, and the third is a high school teacher's
weblog (although he just quit because his weblog has made him so famous--seriously).
If anybody is thinking about being a teacher, I would encourage you
to look for other educational
Merlot: Multimedia Educational
Resources for Learning and Online Teaching.
A huge site with links to online teaching materials
(including many simulations and tutorials); many disciplines represented.
Steve Krause's
Teaching Tips
Steve Krause is a professor of English at Eastern Michigan
State University and has maintained a set of links relative to teaching
in computer classrooms. Handouts, remediated.
Will Richardson, Weblogg-ed
Will uses his blog to keep up with changes in education,
particularly uses of weblogs, wikis, and podcasts. He has just published
a book (how retro) on the technologies. New media spawns old media--what
do we make of that?
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If you have a piece of fiction that you would like to move to the web,
and do so in a way that takes advantage of the web's logic of hypermediacy,
these examples might give you some ideas for how to proceed.
Michael Joyce, Twelve
Blue.
A detached, literary, soap opera—about blueness,
writing, and nothing at all.
Martha Conway, Girl,
Birth, Water, Death.
Short fiction with interesting hypertextual choices.
Ian Randall Wilson. "If
We Even Did Anything"
Fiction as criticism--I had this piece in a different
section but the author suggested he would prefer it here. Authors
get to revise the anthologies they appear in, when those anthologies
are on the web.
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This section is a little weak, but the idea here is that if you wanted
to put a business or organization or club online, you would be "remediating"
that business, club, or organization. Obviously you can visit any big
or little organization and see what they have done to remediate themselves,
or you can go to Amazon to see how first a bookstore, then a super-store,
has remediated itself, but these two links will give you some principles
and ideas for remediating your business or club. Or maybe it would be
better to go to Barnes & Noble online, because they atleast have
a bricks and mortar operation to be remediated.
Deborah Whitman, "Ten
Deadly Sins for Small Businesses Online"
This essay is not an example of remediation, but it
provides a nice list of "don'ts" if you want to remediate
your small business.
Internet Non-Profit Center
This website for and about non-profits would be the
first place to go if you want to help a non-profit agency remediate
itself.
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This section will be most useful during Unit 3 of the course.
Introduction
to Internet Invention
This web-based "introduction" is significantly
different from the text-based introduction you will read. The two
"introductions" make an interesting case study in remediation.
Ulmer
Video and Lecture
This site contains a two-minute clip from a lecture
delivered in June 2003, as well as the full transcipt of the lecture.
Toward
Electracy: An Interview
This interview from 2000 begins with Ulmer's definitions of "electracy"
and "emeragency."
Michael
Jarrett on mystories.
Jarrett is a professor at Penn State, has well developed explanations
of mystoriography, and has links to some examples.
Jenny Edbauer: "Writing
in Extimacy: A Review of Greg Ulmer's Internet Invention"
This review does a nice job of explaining some of Ulmer's
concepts and strategies, as well as pointing out some of the challenges
II presents for students.
Lisa Gye: Essay
and Mystory
Lisa Gye constructed a mystory called "Halflives" that has
been archived at the Australian National Library, and she has written
about the project in the journal, Fiberculture.
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These are all huge remediation projects; don't feel you have to take
on anything of this scale, but see what you can learn from their strategies.
Project Gutenberg
"Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer
of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts). Most of the Project Gutenberg
eBooks are older literary works that are in the public domain in the
United States. All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed
for non-commercial use." Basic remediation: from print to electronic
form.
Samuel Pepys Diary
This site is an interesting, ongoing example of remediation
in action--a print diary from the 17th century being published on
the web one day at a time. It is no co-incidence that this site started
in January of 2003--after weblogging became a mainstream web activity.
The
Rossetti Archives
The Rossetti Archives is the most sustained scholarly archiving project
in English studies. You can read about its origins, see the collected
images, read the collected poems, and search the site.
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I call these "internet inventions" because they seem to push
the envelope of what the web can do, but obviously they are also still
involved in a process of remediation.
Dane, Help
and Him
Flash fiction, usually found in the Eastgate Reading
Room (above links) or at Comfylux.
Visually intriguing; emergent stories—spend some time with them.
Joseph Squire Urban
Diary
Urban Diary chronicles the life and thoughts of an anonymous
urban citizen. Its origins are obscure, its true meaning known only
to its original owner. The recurring themes of Urban Diary are control,
faith, desire, and obsession.
Tina LaPorte, Distance
Images and words, telling a story of CU-seeme encounters.
Read an interview
with LaPore in order to learn more about her work.
Carolyn Guyer and Michael Joyce, Lasting
Image.
A deceptively long but tight lyrical reflection on
an image that has stuck with our culture.
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If the experimental projects look overwhelming, start with a genre
you are familiar with (the academic essay), and consider some of the
ways in which you can remediate it as a web-text.
Geoffrey Sirc, "Never
Mind the Tagmemics, Where's the Sex Pistols?"
Originally published as a traditional print essay in
College Composition and Communication (see JSTOR for a copy
of the original), this piece got a make-over in the online journal
Pre/Text. The use of color, font variety, and images drive
this example of academic publishing remediated.
Collin Gifford Brooke, "Perspective:
Notes Toward the Remediation of Style."
This essay demonstrates the remediation of style even
as it offers notes towards that remediation.
Cass Dalglish, "Textual
Dance: Allusion in the Oldest and Newest Poetry."
This web page includes a fairly traditional essay and
a creative remediation at the end. The author of this essay, Cass
Dalglish, has also written a wonderful novel, Nin , that treats "electronic
communication" as an important sub-theme.
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